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The Minister of Justice wants to increase the penalties for hate speech. Whoever is convicted and has public functions may have as an accessory penalty the ban on exercising the office. Journalists and teachers can also be penalized with expulsion from their professions. On the other hand, it intends to broaden the spectrum of discrimination that can lead to imprisonment.

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The dean of the University of Aveiro, Paulo Jorge Ferreira, ordered the opening of an inquiry process to a professor of the Physics Department of the institution, after the organization Quarentena Académica denounced the professor. Paulo Jorge Ferreira revealed this Monday that an investigation was opened due to the publication on social networks of messages with a “discriminatory” content, with which the institution “does not agree”.